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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

King Colors Library Trying Down Out

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

Community World Building Library Up

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Good Book Library Television Find

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

Science Rest Library Short Healthy

I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.

Freedom Time Library Down March

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

Library Late Boy 1950s Rice Books

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

People Game Library You Look Find

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'

Father Day Cricket Book Library

In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.

Elizabeth Wilson

New York Me Library Name Doing Play

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

Daily Silence Baseball Library Loss

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

Elizabeth McCracken

Job Woman People Library Loved New

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

Technology Research World Library

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Home Memory Library First Hammer

There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.

Library Congress Should Terminology

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Charles Bukowski

Library Must Whole Read Between

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Home Brother Reading Library Early

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

Children Library Literature Buying

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Time Travel School People Library

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

Child Library Development Closing

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Music Mom Library Marketing Kind

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Terry Pratchett

I Am Me Library Journalism Without

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Heart Sad School Library Out Empty

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Sandra Cisneros

Mother School People Me Library See

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Imagination Library Paradise Kind

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